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title	:	Performing Asian America : Race and Ethnicity On the Contemporary Stage Asian American History and Culture
author	:	Lee, Josephine D.
publisher	:	Temple University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1566396379
print isbn13	:	9781566396370
ebook isbn13	:	9780585364100
language	:	English
subject	American drama--20th century--History and criticism, Ethnicity in literature, Race in literature.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PS338.A74L44 1997eb
ddc	:	812/.5409035073
subject	:	American drama--20th century--History and criticism, Ethnicity in literature, Race in literature.

Page i Performing Asian America

Page ii In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, and Michael Omi A list of books in this series appears at the back of this volume

Page iii Performing Asian America Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage Josephine Lee

Page iv Disclaimer Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 1997 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 1997 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Text design by Mary Mendell Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lee, Josephine Ding, 1960 Performing Asian America : race and ethnicity on the contemporary stage / Josephine Lee. p. cm. (Asian American History and Culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56639-502-X (cloth : alk. paper) 1. American drama20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Asian Americans in literature. 3. American dramaAsian American authorsHistory and criticism. 4. Ethnicity in literature. 5. Race in literature. I. Title. PS338.A74L44 1997 812'.5409035073dc20 96-31621

Page v Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Critical Strategies for Reading Asian American Drama 1 2 The Asian American Spectator and the Politics of Realism 34 3 The Chinaman's Unmanly Grief 61 4 The Seduction of the Stereotype 89 5 Acts of Exclusion: Asian American History Plays 136 6 Asian American Doubles and the Soul Under Capitalism 163 7 Staging "Passing" on the Borders of the Body 189 Epilogue 217 Notes 221 Works Cited 231 Index 239 Photographs Appear on Pages 121135

Page vii Acknowledgments Many friends, colleagues, and family members have supported me throughout the length of this project. I am particularly indebted to Michael Goldman, A. R. Gurney, Jr., Leyla Ezdinli, Randy Barbara Kaplan, De Witt Kilgore, Imogene Lim, Yuko Matsukawa, Mitziko Sawada, Ranu Samantrai, and W. B. Worthen. I also wish to thank Luisa Cariaga, Dennis Carroll, Tisa Chang, Chris Huie, Bob Hsiang, Corky Lee, Charissa Uemara, Roberta Uno, and Rick Shiomi for their indispensable help with information and photographs. David Palumbo-Liu and Janet Francendese provided sound advice throughout the process of revision and editing. My students at Princeton, California State UniversityNorthridge, Smith College, and the University of Minnesota have given me valuable insights into the reading of these plays. The initial research for this book was partially supported by grants from Five Colleges, Inc., the University of Minnesota Graduate School, and the McKnight Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. I would like to thank all of those who by blood, relation, or spirit constitute the members of my extended family. I am especially indebted

Page viii to my parents, Po Lee and Feng Ming Young Lee, and my sisters Jean and May for their continuing encouragement and care. Finally, I am most grateful to my husband, Kevin Kinneavy, without whose devoted efforts this book would not have been possible.

Page 1 1 Critical Strategies for Reading Asian American Drama This book begins a critical examination of selected plays written by Americans of Asian descent. The works considered cover a diverse range of subjects and dramatic styles; my discussion teases out the shared strategies by which plays and playwrights make performance, dramatic form, and audience response inseparable from the meaning of race and ethnicity. As we shall see, such an examination necessarily engages with many pressing concerns, ones whose effects are felt outside as well as inside the theater. These concerns make it crucial for us to refocus our approaches to dramatic and literary interpretation in response to large political question about Asian American experience, identity, and action. Through the reading of these plays, we may gain insight not only into individual plays, but also more generally into the complex modes of action that these works employ and exemplify.

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